Cats Have It All

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This tutorial was written by Sharon A on May 1, 2012 & is copyright protected

For more info read my TOU

Supplies Needed

Word Art by me here

Lace here

Plugins

Eyecandy Texture

The tube I used Two Fluffy Kitties (80-3) is by Jasmine Becket-Griffith, you can purchase this tube from CDO here

The name of the font I used is Shutup

I used size 60

Open new transparent canvas 930x375, we will resize later

Floodfill with a color from your tube

Duplicate 2 times

Apply eyecandy texture marble

Settings>sharp calcite

Click on basic

Change the bedrock color to your bg color

Change vein color to a lighter shade of your color

Repeat on other 2 layers clicking on the random seed button each time

Paste your tube as a new layer

Resize as needed and add drop shadow

Position on one side

Paste word art as a new layer

Resize to 75%

Position into place

Add a new raster layer

Floodfill with a lighter shade of your bg color

On your WA layer select all>float>defloat

On your floodfill layer invert your selection

Delete, deselect & merge down

Add an inner bevel & drop shadow

Paste your lace as a new layer

Resize to 57%

Position on the upper right side

Duplicate, mirror & merge down

Move up so only the lacey bottom part shows

Select around your tag with your selection tool

Crop to selection

Duplicate your lace

Flip & merge down

Resize all layers to 70%

Add your text, name & © info

Animation:

Hide animation 2 & 3

Merge visible

Copy & paste into animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 1 & unhide #2

Merge & paste after current in animation shop

Undo your merge

Hide animation 2 & unhide #3

Merge visible & paste after current in animation shop

View your animation

Save as gif & you're all done!

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial

Your comments are very much appreciated either here on this post or on the chat box.  I've made it easy for you to post on this tut by turning off the requirement of having to type in a confirmation code

I would love to post your © compliant result, just email it to me with ATT Sharon & the tut name in the subject line

You'll find my email blinkie on your left

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Result by Kaye W